Trashy tags: Problematic tags in LibraryThing

New Library World

Volumn 111, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 223-235

  Thomas, Marliese ^a   Caudle, Dana M ^a   Schmitz, Cecilia ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Libraries; Literacy; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952228938     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074801011044098     Document Type: Article

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